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The Teaching of Science

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I AM the principal of a private school. I have long taken an interest in science, and have, by proceeding very gradually and cautiously, succeeded in making Scientific Teaching for a limited time in the week a part of the regular school course. There are many more difficulties, however, in the way of this than some of your off-hand devotees of science seem to be aware of.

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A., M. The Teaching of Science. Nature 3, 404–405 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003404c0

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